United States v. Lawyer Lee Walker

This appeal seeks an answer to the question — when is a prison Cook Supervisor not a prison Corrections Officer? My answer to that question, in the present context, differs dramatically from the majority’s answer — my answer is never!

The majority’s opinion holds that, pursuant to the definition set forth by an earlier panel of this court, United States v. Walker, 149 F.3d 238 (3d Cir.1998) (“Walker I”), Cook Supervisor Wadeck, who was assaulted by the appellant Walker, neither was, nor is a Corrections Officer.1 In reaching this decision, the majority displays, as Justice Frankfurter stated,…